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Photo courtesy of Star Sailors League by Carol Cronin (Published on the blog “Carol Newman Cronin – Where Books Meet Boats”) Back in December, I went to Nassau to write about sailors who were racing the Star Sailors League Finals for the first time. The resulting story, Tiny Giant Among Giants, showed up in my mailbox a…
Promotion in the Snipe class after the abolition of restrictions related to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by Zbigniew Zibi Rakocy The world and our whole life after the pandemic will no…
by Luis Soubie, SCIRA Commodore Hello Snipe family, I am writing these lines to you from my home, on my 24th day of quarantine, as many of you are…
Special guests: Augie Diaz, Pedro Pires de Lima, Kathleen Tocke, Antonio Bari, Victor Perez Campos, Luis Soubie and Ricardo Lobato…
Read the latest Snipe Bulletin – out today https://issuu.com/jbiehl/docs/snipebulletinspring2020 SnipeBulletinSpring2020…
Presentation of the 2020 Snipe Open European Championship. Special guests: Damir Vranic, Reino Suonsilta, Daniela Semec, Antonio Bari, Josipa Prosinecki, Marko Marinovic…
Moruzzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy – Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA – April 1st, 2020 We hope you have enjoyed our April Fool’s stories. Pesce d’aprile! Poisson d’avril! Aprilvis! (i.e.
By Pietro Fantoni More or less all regattas have been canceled due to the Coronavirus. The exceptions are very few. In some countries, such as Italy and Spain, any…
(Please watch this video above – 470 Men Medal Race with Free kinetics in 8 knots – and then read this article) By Pietro Fantoni To Rule 42 or…
Photo Book by Matias Capizzano Link…
Blocking waves, adjusting all those controls: Thanks Kim! (Thanks also to Matias Capizzano for this photo from the 2015 Snipe Worlds.) by Carol Cronin Today, Kim and I are supposed…
by Pietro Fantoni We are experiencing a strange, almost surreal period. We all have a great desire to race or simply go out on the boat to train, but…
by Paola Prada Yes, there were women sailing snipes before; I myself was one of them. There have always been spectacular women sailing Snipes. However, we were missing a…
by George Szabo Regatta circuits require lots of travel and Quantum’s George Szabo is no stranger to the logistical challenges that come with the road trips, including getting your…
Both teammate Kim Couranz and inspiration Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz give great boat-park advice—and they also keep me laughing. by Carol Cronin (Published on Carol Newman Cronin – Author,…